Diouldé Laya

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Diouldé Laya (* 1937 in Tamou ; † 27. July 2014 ; also Djouldé Laya and Juulde Layya ) was a Nigerien sociologist .

Life

Diouldé Laya went to primary schools in Say and Kollo before he attended the Lycée Askia Mohamed in Bamako from 1950 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1967 he studied at Dakar University . There he received a license ès lettres in sociology in 1962 and a Diplôme d'études supérieures in sociology in 1967 . Laya was politically active in Senegal in the communist party Parti africain de l'indépendance and toured the People's Republic of China at the time of Mao Zedong's rule .

As early as 1962 he was Secretary General of the Nigerien UNESCO Commission. He held this position until 1970. From 1964 to 1964 he was also an editor at the Encyclopedia Africana . Laya worked from 1970 to 1977 as director of the Research Institute of Human Sciences at Niamey University . In 1974 he published an ethnological dissertation at the University of Paris-Nanterre . From 1977 to 1997 he was director of the Center d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale of the Organization for African Unity .

Laya was married and the father of eight children. He retired in 1998. He died in 2014 and was buried in Niamey .

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overview

Diouldé Laya's research activities extended to sociology as well as other disciplines such as ethnology, psychopathology and linguistics . As a theorist, he dealt with the use of oral traditions in the social sciences . In this regard, Laya published works on the collection, transcription and translation of oral traditions in the Nigerian languages , particularly in Songhai-Zarma , Hausa and Fulfulde . Laya worked with Boubou Hama and André Salifou from Niger and Georges Balandier and Louis-Vincent Thomas from France.

Fonts

  • Traditions historiques de l'Anzuru . Center Régional de Documentation pour la Tradition Orale, Niamey 1970.
  • La tradition oral. Problématique et méthodologie des sources de l'histoire africaine . Center Régional de Documentation pour la Tradition Orale, Niamey 1972.
  • Les zamu, ou, Poèmes sur les noms. Orale tradition in Songhay-Zarma society . Center Nigérien de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Niamey 1972.
  • Research and development. Le projet de mise en valeur des cuvettes de Kutukale et Karma en pays Songhay. Mission Ader Doutchi-Majya, December 1965 – January 1967 . 2nd Edition. Center Nigérien de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Niamey 1973.
  • La Tradition peule des animaux d'attache . Dissertation. Institut d'ethnologie de l'Université de Paris, Paris 1973.
  • Traditions orales historiques des Goles . Institut de recherches en sciences humaines, Niamey 1976.
  • Laawol fulfulde . Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative de l'Université de Paris X, Nanterre 1978.
  • Lyrics songhay-zarmas . Center d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historique par Tradition Orale, Niamey 1978.
  • La voie peule. Solidarité pastorale et bienséances sahéliennes . Nubia, Paris 1984.
  • Traditions of the Songhay de Téra (Niger) . Karthala, Paris 1998.
  • Boubou Hama. Un homme de culture nigérien . L'Harmattan, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-296-02407-6 .

Diouldé Laya published numerous other articles and studies, including several times in the Journal des Africanistes of the Société des Africanistes . He also wrote the entry "Niger" in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1972).

Honors

literature

  • Jean-Dominique Pénel, Amadou Maïlélé: Littérature du Niger. Rencontre . Volume III: Mahamadou Halidou Sabbo, Diouldé Laya, André Salifou, Mamane Maïdou, Diado Amadou, Abdoua Kanta, Yacou Karanta, Mamane Sani, Salif Dago, Moussa Mahamadou, Kangaï Seyni Maïga. L'Harmattan, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-296-12860-6 , chap. Diouldé Laya , S. 39-67 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Siradji Sanda: Décès de Djouldé Laya: Le Niger perd un grand sociologue. In: Le Sahel . July 2014, accessed April 2, 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ Décès du Doyen Djouldé Laya. Center d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale, July 2014, accessed on April 2, 2015 (French).
  3. ↑ Mamane Abdoulaye: Prix ​​Boubou Hama, édition 2015: Diouldé Laya distingué à titre posthume. In: Le Sahel . March 2016, accessed March 19, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Laya, Diouldé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laya, Djouldé; Layya, Juulde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Tamou
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2014